Porpoises and Taro

Alkire, William H.

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“…Woleia atoll. Consider an example from a completely different part of the world-a South Pacific atoll called Woleia, a 5 mile long by 2.5 mile wide island in the Western Caroline Islands (Alkire, 1968). The population of about 600 people engaged in agriculture and fishing and lived in a close communal setting with extensive face-to-face contacts.…”

Section: Cultures Of Apparently Minimal Privacymentioning

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Privacy Regulation: Culturally Universal or Culturally Specific?

Altman

1977

Journal of Social Issues

411

194

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This article examines privacy as a generic process that occurs in all cultures but that also differs among cultures in terms of the behavioral mechanisms used to regulate desired levels of privacy. Ethnographic data are examined from a variety of cultures, particularly from societies with apparently maximum and minimum privacy, and from analyses of various social relationships, such as parents and children, in-laws, husbands and wives. It is concluded that privacy is a universal process that involves culturally unique regulatory mechanisms.This article addresses the question posed in the title, namely, is privacy regulation a culturally universal process or is it a culturally specific phenomenon? Like the rabbi of Jewish folklore faced with petitioners holding irreconcilable opinions, my answer is "yes, both positions are correct!" This seemingly paradoxical response is based on an analysis of privacy as (a) a culturally universal process involving dynamic, dialectic, and optimization features, and @) a culturally specific process in terms of mechanisms used to regulate social interaction. Thus, I view privacy to be culturally pervasive at one level of analysis and culturally unique at another level of analysis.The first section of the article summarizes a theoretical model and rationale for conceiving privacy as a cultural universal. Dilemmas, issues, and a strategy for dealing with the question of cultural universals are then discussed, followed by a review of ethnographic data related to privacy. ~ I wish to acknowledge my appreciation for comments on earlier versions of this article

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Section: Cultures Of Apparently Minimal Privacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Privacy Regulation: Culturally Universal or Culturally Specific?

Altman

1977

Journal of Social Issues

411

194

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“…Tabus are most often of four days or four months in length, medicines are administered in units of four (as twice a day for two days) and an elaborated form of divination depends on four readings of two pairs of knotted leaf strips, the knots of which are read in groups of four. This type of knot divination, termed bwe, is found on most of the islands of the central Carolines and has been de-scribed by several authors (Girschner, 1912;Walleser, 1913;Lessa, 1959;Alkire, 1970).…”

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“…Navigational lore is systematized and the conceptual principles basic to it are also reflected in other domains of Woleaian culture (cf. Alkire, 1970).…”

Section: Woleai Atoll Concepts Of Ordermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In sum the star compass is based on a rectangular form which singles out as especially important its midpoint, its midstar (lugulapelang), and its four corners (libweisis). I have discussed in detail elsewhere (Alkire, 1970) the importance of midpoints and quadripartite divisions in a wide range of specialized activities on Woleai. I shall summarize those points which are relevant to this article.…”

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Concepts of Order in Southeast Asia and Micronesia

Alkire

1972

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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“…Historically, the hunting of small cetaceans was important to island and atoll societies throughout the Pacific Islands, representing the cultural divisions of Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia. Some islands with a documented history of hunting cetaceans include: the Mariana Islands (Costenoble, ), the Gilbert Islands (Grimble, ), Woleai Atoll in Federated States of Micronesia (Alkire, ), the Hawaiian Islands (Wilkes, ), the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia (Reeves et al ., ) and the Solomon Islands (Dawbin, ). Aside from food, the teeth and bone from sperm whales and small cetaceans were an important component of traditional jewelry, often in the form of necklaces.…”

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Species identity and human consumption of beaked whales in the Gilbert Islands, Republic of Kiribati

Baker

Hutt²,

Thompson

et al. 2013

Animal Conservation

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We investigated the species identity and local use of cetaceans on the Gilbert Islands, Republic of Kiribati. Working with the Kiribati Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development and Fisheries Division, we visited the islands of Tarawa, Tabiteuea (North), Butaritari and Onotoa from June to July 2009, and collected 24 bones, bone fragments or teeth attributed to recent strandings. The mitochondrial DNA control region or cytochrome b was successfully amplified from 12 bones or bone fragments and used to identify four species: Mesoplodon sp. representing a new species or subspecies of beaked whale, the dense-beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris, Cuvier's beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris and the pygmy sperm whale Kogia breviceps. This is the first confirmed identification of the dense-beaked, Cuvier's and pygmy sperm whales from the Gilbert Islands. All specimens were reportedly used for human consumption.

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Porpoises and Taro

Cited by 8 publications

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Privacy Regulation: Culturally Universal or Culturally Specific?

Privacy Regulation: Culturally Universal or Culturally Specific?

Concepts of Order in Southeast Asia and Micronesia

Species identity and human consumption of beaked whales in the Gilbert Islands, Republic of Kiribati

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